DUET LOVE

Duet Love performs love, lust, and charged energy. Portland choreographer Tahni Holt returns to the TBA Festival with her latest work that presents coupled bodies performing gendered states around the romantic premise of the “duet.” Holt and a stellar Pacific Northwest artistic team from draw from iconic photographs of couples to drive this inquiry into how bodies perform gender. If masculine and feminine are forces and factors, how do markers of gender and race inflect the movement, emotion and decisions of dancing bodies? Performed by Ezra Dickinson, keyon gaskin, Allie Hankins and Lucy Yim. Music composed by Luke Wyland with special guest Corrina Repp. Dramaturgy by Robert Tyree. Lighting design by Jeff Forbes. Costume design by Jayme Hansen and Kate Fenker. Artistic advice by Chris Larson.

Note from Tahni: I use two radically different modes of working in Duet Love. There are the image bound material sourced from and inspired by the photographs from iconic hetero couples and there is material sourced from our somatic, sensorial practice of feeling pleasure and playing with feminine/masculine energies. The tension between these two modalities is at the heart of the works unease.

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Photo: Lynn Lane